Faculty-Nipun Saini, PhD

Nipun Saini, PhD Assistant Professor of Nutrition Biography Publications News nipun_saini@unc.edu704-250-5065 Dr. Saini’s research interest is to understand the metabolic adaptations that occur in the mother and fetus to support a healthy pregnancy, and how...
Fortifying Futures: The Crucial Role of Iron

Fortifying Futures: The Crucial Role of Iron

Iron is an important mineral that helps maintain energy generation. It is a major component of hemoglobin, a type of protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from our lungs to all parts of the body. Iron is also part of myoglobin, a protein that carries and...
Epidemiology: The story of disease.

Epidemiology: The story of disease.

Every good story includes the “5 Ws”: who, what, where, when, and why. In studying how disease begins and remains in a population, we’re writing the story of that disease, and we use the same technique. Understanding the various approaches to the “5 Ws” of a given...

Appetite for Life

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Con-grad-u-lations, Julie Hasken!

Con-grad-u-lations, Julie Hasken!

Congratulations to Julie Hasken, the Nutrition Research Institute’s newest PhD! Julie earned her doctorate from the UNC Chapel Hill Department of Nutrition in 2021 and is now a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Philip May. Julie joined the NRI in 2012 as a...